Biome Environmental Trust

2008 2010

Rainwater Club

Chitra Vishwanath Architects

Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Biome Environmental Trust

Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd

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Corporates

Water StewardshipAwareness workshops

Urban ground water

IGWTBloogleRural Schools

RWH implementationWater filters

BooksTree plantation

15 schools in Pavagada and Devanahalli taluk

Others

Playspaces Water Awareness and education programmes

CMCAVolunteers / Students of public health from Australia, US

Internships

Blind Schools, Namma Shaale, Rishi Valley, Prakriya

Children/Schools Programme

Policy / Research / Training

RWH policyHoneysuckers

Plumbers / contractors

Asha WorkerSchool

Aanganwadi

Self Help groups

Panchayat

Village institutions relevant to Child and Women Empowerment and Well being

The School

• Critical for the country’s future

• A central point which concerns everybody in the village – elders and children

• Targets of child nutrition / health programs

• Clear need for access to safe drinking water and sanitation

School

Anganwadi

Heading for fluoride issues in water ?

School sources of water:

1.Panchayat / Muncipal water supply 2.If School owns a borewell,

its own borewell.3. Imminent Fluoride belt

Government Programme:•Suvarnajala : Rainwater harvesting for 20000+ schools•Miserable failure due to process

Toilets : Not always used, water problems ! Big implication For girl Child

Tanks filled Up after therains

Water very happily used by theSchool

Handholding with maintenance

Reviving Dead Assets :Rejuvenating Suvarnajala RWH

Making Toilets functional

Making life easier for Mid-day meals

SchoolsEducationSanitation

FoodHealth

GovernmentMid-day meal schemeNutrition supplementsMedicines : Anaemia, DiabetesRWH: SuvarnajalaBooks and Uniforms

External Help

Education: water and sanitationBooks: Reading

RWH: With filter, storage, hand pumpBacteriological/Flouride Water filter

Shortcomings

How to loop in other Village entities

Self Help Groups : Credit worthy Aanganwadi : Kitchen, Educational aids for

smaller children, young mothers, unmarried girls

ASHA worker : Health and Hygiene information in the village, cleaning of drains, new mothers, young children

SDMC : School Development Management committee

Panchayat : Local Governance

What is the project ?

1. Engage with Schools with Water problem to –

• Help design and build RWH with storage and a pump for withdrawal

• A “Tata Swach” filter for the school

• Sample testing kits to test water being used (H2S strip test and Fluoride indicative test)

What is the project ?

2. RWH, Water and Sanitation education module

• Give / work with kids to generate material on School’s RWH and different parts

• Small Video show / book reading and mini workshop on water, sanitation and health

• Water testing – do and learn

• Invite the Asha worker, some key shg members etc for this workshop. What conversation does it create ? Will it help define / deepen intervention ?

What is the project ?

3. Monitor performance of RWH and storage over atleast a two-three year period –

• Is it used regularly, how ?

• What are the maintenance issues ?

• What happens when teachers change?

• Is water quality maintained ?

• Does the storage double up as mutli-purpose storage ?

• What conversations “go home” or elsewhere ?

Description School with about 100 kids and 250 sqm rooftop

%

Storage (10KL sump) 90,000

86.5

Plumbing, Filter, Hand pump and other civil works

60,000

Filter 5,000

Books 2,500

Tree Planting 2,500

Trust Administrative Fee

25,000

TOTAL 1,85,000

* Schools proposed in Vijayapura and Hosa Gudya* Existing infrastructure like sumps can also be reused in certain cases

Volunteering

Biome Environmental Trust(Rainwater Club)

1022, 1st floor, 6th Block, HMT Layout, Vidyaranyapura,

Bangalore – 560 097, Phone : 080 41672790

Thank You !!